Low conservatism of the climatic niche of sea turtles and implications for predicting future distributions

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Mazaris, A D ^a   Vokou, D ^a   Almpanidou, V ^a   Turkozan O ^b   Gardelis, S P S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climatic niche overlap; Distribution forecast; Latitude; Marine turtles; Niche divergence; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942745894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES15-00053.1     Document Type: Article

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